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Summer 2008
Wildlife: The Buzz on Bats
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Make that the absence of buzz—because of bats. According to a new study by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, bats are twice as effective as birds at controlling the insects that eat plants, reconfirming the significant ecological role played by these misunderstood and often maligned mammals.
